“The highest standards of data privacy” should be a baseline in the trade talks, Hannes Swoboda, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, said in a statement Friday.
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“Retrieving information from private companies’ servers, without the knowledge of either the companies or the users concerned, does not comply in any way with European data privacy standards,” Mr. Swoboda said. He called on the European Commission, the Union’s executive body, to determine whether any E.U. laws had been broken.